Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 18:13:56 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 19:27:11, Bryan Cabalo wrote: >Why doesn't everyone run their competitive chess programs with the same hardware >so that no single chess engine has a hardware advantage? Since the first chess tournamnet, the hardware has always been different. Have you ever been in soapbox derby - samething, the particpants gets to put it altogether anyway he chooses. I think that makes it very interesting. You are thinking of a Uniform Platform contest, which they used to have every year. People lost interest. > >It seems unfair to me that some competitors have access to faster and better >hardware. I would think of it as a science experiment where the only variable >is the chess engine itself and _not_ the hardware that its running on. That is >the real test. I want to see the real winner of this event competing on equal >hardware playing grounds. I think this would help with hardware uniformity in >future WCCC events. There has to be something in the rules about playing with >equal hardware. Maybe after this year the WCCC could supply the use of one >computer for each participant, or even quad opterons for each participant!! Race cars, saliboats, bicycles - do they used the exact same hardware - of course not. Same thing here. I'm 100% against making the WCCC a uniform hardware event. There could be a place for uniform hardware event as a side/separate tournament if there is enought interest. > >After all, we are just testing which chess search program is better, right? Actually - no. It's really a team effort, hardware, software and operator. It's for fun and bragging rights and maybe a few trophies. We let SSDF test the software and tell us chess search program is best ;>)
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